Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
51st Year. No. 55
Friday, Dec. 4, 1953
Lysaught Wins CampusProblem Speech Contest
Jerome Lysaught, college senior,
won the first place trophy in the
29th annual campus problems speaking.
contest last night.
Glenn Opie, third year law, was rated second in the contest, and Marjorie Englund, education junior, was third. Other contestants were Robert Skinner, college sophomore, Richard Goldsby and William Sayer, college freshmen.
Six University problems were discussed by the contestants.
Lysaught, speaking on "Education for Citizenship," said after four years at KU most students will be well equipped for membership in their local country clubs, but he asked how well they will be prepared as responsible citizens.
Here at the University "students don't have a voice in their own government," he said. Lysaught advocated "more student representatives and less faculty advisers."
Opie, drum major of the University band, called the group the "Unlucky 88" because the members spend considerable time and effort in rehearsal even though only about 15 per cent of the group receives class credit for their participation.
The band has an inadequate budget, and the staff is too small, he said, asking that the public be made aware of those shortcomings.
"Many of our professors have lost sight of the goals of good teaching." Miss England said. She listed partiality, pseudo-superiority, p o o r presentation, and a tendency to encourage high-ranking students rather than poor students as common faults of KU instructors.
Miss England said an improvement most teachers could make would be to show more enthusiasm in their subjects.
"Let's quit kidding ourselves that KU has good school spirit," Skinner said. He said the University should dismiss its cheerleaders and "help K-State tear down the goal posts" unless KU is willing to restore school spirit.
Opening pep organizations to "any student who wants to join" would help give life to the "Dead Hawk" he said.
Goldsby contended the public believes KU has sacrificed the principles of higher learning to an over-emphasis of athletics as evidenced in the case of J. V. Sikes, football coach who resigned this fall.
Football was begun at KU as a recreational sport, he said, and it should be returned to that position. He also advocated shielding sports from alumni pressure.
ALLAN HALL
RUSSELL L. WILEY
A-Chief Sets Talk Thursday
Rear Adm. Hyman George Rickover, Washington, D.C., head of the national atomic energy power plant program, will speak at the University Thursday, Dec. 10, at a banquet honoring graduating senior engineers.
Dean T. DeWitt Carr of the School of Engineering and Architecture said today Adm. Rickover would speak informally. The banquet, set for 6:30 p.m. in the Kansas room of the Union, is expected to attract nearly 275.
He also will interview graduating seniors in mechanical and electrical engineering for employment in the atomic program.
Tickets, $1.25 for association members and $2 for non-members, went on sale this morning near the front door of Marvin.
New Departments Give Engineers Highest Rating
With accreditation of the departments of mining and metallurgical engineering, the School of Engineering and Architecture now has more accredited curricula than any engineering school in the nation.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy today announced that the departments have been accredited by the Engineers' Council for Professional Development - bringing the total of accredited departments in the school to 11.
The other accredited departments of the school are aeronautical engineering, architecture, architectural engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering with options in municipal and sanitary engineering, electrical engineering with options in power and communications engineering, engineering physics, mechanical engineering with an option in industrial engineering, and petroleum engineering.
The two most recently accredited departments are headed by Kenneth Rose, associate professor of mining, and are housed in Lindley hall. The enrollment showed a 23 per cent increase this fall over the enrollment of last year.
Accreditation by the council means that the department has been inspected by a special committee for its curriculum, its faculty and its facilities.
The department also has another distinction. One of the few women in the U.S. ever to receive a Bachelor of Science degree in metallurgy is Mrs. Diana Gaskell Stucker, engineering senior, who will receive her degree in June.
HARRIET KING
Senior Soloists Appear Monday
Allan Hall, pianist, and Harriet King, mezzo soprano, fine arts seniors, will be featured soloists with the University Symphony orchestra, under the direction of Russell L. Wiley, professor of band and orchestra, at 8 p.m. Monday in Hoch auditorium. The concert is open to the public.
Hall will play the "Concerto No. 2" for piano and orchestra by Rachmaninov. He appeared as solosist with the Kansas City Philharmonic orchestra last February and also performed on the honors recital at the University last spring
Miss King will sing the aria, "Adieu Forres," from the operar, "Jeanne D'arc" by Tehakovsky. She has been a regularly trained soloist with the University A Cappella choir and the Light Opera guild, and also appeared on last spring's honor recital.
The other two orchestra works on the program are by Tchaikovsky. Opening the concert will be the "Romeo and Juliet Overture—Fantasy." It is not an overture in the sense that it is a prelude to an opera. Rather, it is a piece piece which is an entireity in itself. As the title suggests, the composer drew much of his inspiration for the work from Shakespeare's great love tragedy of the same name.
The final work will be "Symphony No. 6 (Patatiemy)," a symphony of cascading and conflicting emotions and regarded as one of Techalkovsky's greatest orchestral compositions. The spirited third movement seems to conquer fate as Beethoven did in his Fifth symphony, but the fourth movement cries out like a wail of despair from all mankind.
The KU Chorale will give a recital for the University Women's club Saturday, Dec. 5, from 9:30 to 10 a.m. in the ballroom of the club.
KU Chorale to Sing For Women's Club
The program will include "Mary Had a Baby" sung by the men with Linda Stormont, fine arts senior, as the soloist.
The women in the chorale will sing "Poor Mary" and the entire chorale will sing "Twelve Days of Christmas" accompanied by actions. The group will also sing many of the traditional Christmas carols.
London Reporter Talks Today
James Morris, London Times foreign correspondent and the only newspaperman on the Mt. Everest expedition last June, is speaking today at 2 p.m. in Strong auditorium. He will describe the first successful scaling of the highest mountain in the world. He will also tell how he covered the expedition and got the news of the success out in time for announcement on the eve of the Coronation.
Big 3 Talks Start With Arrival of Ike
Tucker's Town, Bermuda, —(UP)—The twice-postponed Big Three conference started today with the arrival of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, key man in the triumvirate which will decide the defense of Europe and the whole Western world.
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Three monotonous issues since President Eisenhower, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and French Premier Joseph Laniel as they prepared to open their four-day session.
They were: Germany's future, a Big Four ministers' meeting with the Soviet Union, and the war against the Communists in Indo-China, now in its eighth year.
The three statesmen also were expected to study important "side" issues, such as the Trieste crisis and renewal of exchange of atomic information between the United States and Britain, a relation which was broken off after the British traitor, Klaus Fuchs, gave atomic secrets to the Russians.
A possible Big Four meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov obviously was the first item on the agenda.
British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault held a 90-minute informal meeting last night and agreed to accept the Soviet proposal for a four power meeting of foreign ministers in Berlin.
Their next move will be to win the support of U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles at their meeting, a preliminary opening to the conference.
It was learned that, in deference to the wishes of the United States, Mr. Eden and Mr. Bidault agreed the West must make clear to the Kremlin that a Big Four conference would take into consideration only the German unity and Austrian treaty issues.
Under no circumstances would they permit Mr. Molotov to use the conference as a sounding-board for bringing Communist China into a subsequent Big Five meeting, it was learned.
Weather
Increasing cloudiness extreme west this afternoon and over state tonight.
Snow beginning extreme west by tomorrow morning with precipitation spreading over state tomorrow as rain falls in east, exent, mived, with
snow extreme northeast. Warmer extreme west tonight and slightly colder extreme east. Low tonight 20s north and west to near 30 south-east, high tomorrow 25-35 west and 35-45 east.
STAN KENTON
Kenton Concert Tickets Available
There are still plenty of good seats available for the "Festival of Modern American Jazz," a concert featuring Stan Kenton's orchestra, to be held at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow in Hoch auditorium.
Tickets are $2.04 and $1.53 and may be obtained at the Hoch box office starting at 2:15 p.m. tomorrow. 2000 tickets have already been sold.
Kenton has collected some of the top musicians in the country for his present orchestra. His instrumentalists perennially place high in Downbeat magazine's annual musicians' poll. Included are Lee Konitz, saxophone, Frank Rosolino and Bill Russo, trombones, and Stan Levy, drums.
Dizzy Gillespie and his combo will also be featured on the program. He was among one of the original boppers. Soloist Stan Getz, saxophone, is known as the "sound" in Woody Herman's jazz classic, "Early Autumn."
Slim Gallill, among other languages, speaks "Vout," a language he originated. He also plays several instruments.
Tonight's Film Series Has Danish Movie, Nature Study
The two movies on tonight's film series program—"Water Birds" and "Ditte, Child of Man"offer a widely varied entertainment selection.
"Ditte, Child of man," a Danish movie with English titles, is taken from the novel of that name by Martin Aderson Nexo. The movie is an adaptation of the first half of the book. Certain scenes of the film showing Ditte as an adolescent have been deleted for American showings, but it is otherwise complete.
Karen Lykkehus, a servant girl on a large farm, has an illegitimate daughter by the owner's son, and the owner gives the girl some money. But the girl's old mother, Karen Poulsen, hides the cash and brings up Ditte, the unwanted child.
Years later, Miss Lykkehus is
years later, and takes her daughter,
Tiemrho, and takes her daughter,
played by Tove Maes, away from the grandmother. The latter is killed by Miss Lykkehus who is searching for the hidden money.
When she is jailed for the murder,
Tove Maes takes care of the family
until she, too, has an illegitimate
child. Eventually she rejoins her
mother, who is freed from jail.
"Water Birds," a Walt Disney true-life technicolor production, is the fifth factual nature picture he has produced.
Such flying creatures as the cormorant, snakebirds, pelican, herons, spoonbill, and man-o-w bird, plus many others are seen in closeups scenes seldom seen by any but naturalists.